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HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I understand the point the Minister is making. On the one hand, he wants everyone to be reminded annually of their right to join a trade union, but he wants them to be reminded of…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)In the spirit of following that debate through to its natural conclusion, no matter where we stand on the politics, surely the happy medium would be to marry up whatever the…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)indicated dissent .07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The Opposition stand by our amendment 126. I do not want to repeat all the arguments that I made in my substantive speech. However, I listened very carefully to the Minister’s…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I give way to the hon. Member for High Peak, although he now wishes for it to be in Greater Manchester.07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)As I alluded to, the hon. Gentleman seems to want his constituency to leave Derbyshire and join Greater Manchester, so he is opening up a can of worms there. I am happy to tell…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I understand the point that the hon. Gentleman makes and I appreciate his contribution, through that intervention, to this debate. Where I would gently push back is that there are…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I do not wish to misrepresent the hon. Gentleman in any way, shape or form, but I return to my central argument. Although I entirely accept what he says—that there are examples of…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)One moment and I will, of course, give way to the hon. Gentleman. If unions cannot reach 10%, what is the rationale for saying, “Oh well, we’ll just lower it to 2%”? Surely, if…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)This is another bumper grouping for us to debate. As the Minister said, new clause 32 would require the Secretary of State to consider whether sufficient measures are in place to…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 126, in clause 48, page 61, line 20, at end insert— “4A In subsection (1) of section 82 (Rules as to political fund), after paragraph (d) insert— ‘(e) that…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)As the Minister said, the amendment clarifies that the Employment Appeal Tribunal may dismiss an appeal under new section 70ZK(2) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I rise to speak to amendment 126 standing in my name and those of my hon. Friends on the Committee. The amendment would require trade unions to notify their members every year of…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I understand the importance of not predetermining a consultation, but will the Minister not accept that, by definition, the Government have to consult on something? There must be…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I understand his fundamental point, but before the Government tabled the amendment a feasible interpretation of the rules…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for his detailed explanation. I will focus my remarks predominantly around the proposed new range of 2% to 10%. I would think, to most reasonable…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)As the Minister said, Government amendment 80 clarifies that if circumstances are specified under new section 70ZF(4)(a), the effect of specifying those circumstances is that it…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Sixteenth sitting)I will focus my remarks on new clause 30, tabled in my name and that of my hon. Friends the Members for West Suffolk, for Bridgwater and for Mid Leicestershire. It is good to see…07 Jan 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights Bill (Fifteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Mundell, and I too wish you and all members of the Committee a very happy, prosperous and healthy new year. If only the…07 Jan 2025